US Patent Issued to Washington University on Aug. 19 for "Ultrasound-target-shape-guided sparse regularization to improve accuracy of diffused optical tomography" (Missouri, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,153, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Washington University (St. Louis).

"Ultrasound-target-shape-guided sparse regularization to improve accuracy of diffused optical tomography" was invented by Quing Zhu (St. Louis) and Shiqi Xu (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A diffuse optical tomography (DOT) system for generating a functional image of a lesion region of a subject includes a source subsystem configured to generate optical waves, a probe coupled to the source subsystem and configured to emit the optical waves generated by the source subsystem toward the lesion region and to detect optical waves reflected by the lesio...